Thursday, January 10, 2013

Sooner Rather Than Later & the Party

Sooner Rather Than Later

When I started the blog on my birthday, my husband was
looking for a new position. There was
the thought that we might have to move.
Well the move happened, and we have made the relocation to Miami
Florida.

After the initial shock I was determined to not let go of everything
in the craft room that meant first finding a place big enough to support my
stuff, and second, realign my priorities in my craft room cleanup. I put my husband in charge of looking for a
home. I must say he did a fantastic
job. Although smaller, I still have a
shared office/craft room. I now have to
share a desk, but with the addition of IPads for both of us, my husband is
rarely at the desk.

The Party –

In October, when it was decided we would make the move, I
reviewed my inventory. There is a lot of
stuff that I probably will never get around to using. Every year I get together with my Girl Scout
leader friends for a crafting camping trip.
What better way to use up supplies, and ensure that so much goes to a
home that will use it up.

I set up our annual
trip this year to camp (sleepover) at my house.
What an awesome weekend that was, me and 6 of my best friends, my
daughter fresh home from 3 months in Germany (we actually picked her up half
way through the party) and 2 of her friends.
It was so much fun. A few ladies
brought some supplies, but the general idea was, we had to use my
supplies. I went through the closet and
room – brought so much downstairs. I had
several chipboard album pages, so I asked each person to decorate a page, took
pictures of us, and now I have a keepsake of my friends and the good times we
had. We decorated frames with paint and Girl
Scout swaps and added more pictures. We
decorated tiles. I made a magical crown
for my daughter, and we decorated welcome home signs. There were lots more
things that I put out to use, and after my first couple glasses of sangria, I’m
not sure what everyone made.

My friends know I always had a rule, that if there was left
over food after a camping trip, I never brought it home, it was split among
them. I applied the same rule to the
supplies at this event. So by the end of
the weekend I no longer had my flowers, polymer clay, clay machine, a whole
bunch of paper, and so much other stuff that I had cleaned out.